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The Crime and Policing Bill 2025 expands liability, raising fresh debates over fairness, corporate culture, and culpability.

The International Criminal Police Organisation, or INTERPOL, issues eight types of colour-coded Notices and corresponding diffusions to facilitate international police cooperation.

When HMRC discovers an inaccuracy in a tax return, it is rarely the case that the taxpayer will simply be asked to pay the difference. Schedule 24 to the Finance Act 2007 (Schedule 24) empowers HMRC...

BCL partner Michael Drury and senior associate Caroline Mair analyse the recent Parliamentary report, "Beyond Brexit: policing, law enforcement and security", by the ‘EU Security and Justice...

Welcome to the BCL's sanctions and export controls round-up, highlighting key UK and international developments in sanctions law and compliance.

Local food authorities wield significant investigative powers when it comes to food safety violations, resulting in hundreds of business prosecutions annually.

Managing an organisation's response to a regulatory crisis is a complex process. An important factor to be considered is whether a party can rely on litigation...

In this guide, BCL partner Tom McNeill explains the process for responding to a criminal regulatory investigation following a serious accident or dangerous occurrence in a workpla

If NatWest, one of the UK's ‘big four' banks, finds it hard to comply with money laundering laws, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Ellen Peart and Daniel Jackson review the future of jury trials in England and Wales as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Since March 2020, there have been calls for an inquiry into the government response to the Covid pandemic. An inquiry could provide a forum for understanding what happened and why.

‘Failure to prevent' offences have changed the landscape of corporate criminal liability.

Local food authorities have considerable powers to investigate food safety offences, and every year, hundreds of businesses are prosecuted. For many businesses, there will have been warning signs, with enforcement...

Three weeks ago, in an outcome with which even its sternest critics are unlikely to disagree, the European Court of Human Rights ("the Strasbourg Court" / "the Court") handed down a landmark ruling in Netherlands and Ukraine v. Russia.

The turbulent trajectory of the UK's laws to combat the spread of Covid-19 over the last two years is such that it can be hard to recall exactly what has been prohibited and when.

The High Court has heard – and rejected – the first challenge under the UK's post-Brexit sanctions framework. BCL partner, John Binns explains what the judgment tell us about how others...

Partner John Binns explains the way money laundering laws work under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA).

In an exercise in legal orthodoxy, on 30 June 2025 the High Court refused to grant permission to bring judicial review proceedings to Al-Haq, a Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation...